Cord-adjuster.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID M. CARR, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

CORD-ADJUSTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,666, dated October '7, 1902.

Application led August il, 1901. Serial No. 71,344. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, t hefty concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID M. CARR, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cord-Adjusters, of which the following is a specification.

This inventionrelates to cord-adjusters, and is particularly useful in connection with electrical conductorcords- It consists in the devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l shows a forni of this invention with the parts in one position, and Fig. 2 shows the same device with the parts in another position while the cord is being adjusted thereon.

The device consists in an elongated frame, preferably made of a single piece of springwire-as, for instance, of brass or steel-so as to be continous and having a single side opening thereinto through which a cord may be passed. One end a of the frame is curved into a form adapted to fit around the cord l). From the curved portion c extend the two sides wires a a2. The lower portion of the side wire c is curved back upon itself, as shown at 0.3, and its end is provided with a suitable socket c" for the end of the wire a?. This socket may either be formed in the continuous wire c or may be a socket separately made and fastened upon the end thereof. The side wire c2 is bent, so that when resting in the socket c* it is held therein by the spring-pressure of the wire and when removed from the socket Ulis adapted to spring away therefrom, as shown in Fig. 2, in order that the cord may be inserted through the opening thus made.

I prefer the form of device shown in the figures, which is substantially an oval, with a long major axis and a short minor axis. For conductor-cords the end curves cl. as preferably should not bind thereon. In order to apply the cord to this form of the invention, the end of the wire a2 is removed from the socket CL4 and byits natural spring leaves an opening or entrance into the interior of the oval. The conductor h is then placed within the oval through the opening, (if it has no free end,) and the conductor-cord is then wound around the arms o.' a2, preferably, as shown in the drawings, by a kind of ligure-8 winding-that is to say, the cord is wound around the outside of the wire d', is then passed through the opening around the end of the wire a2, then around the outside of the wire a2, then through said opening, then around the outside of the wire a', and so on until a sufcient amount of the cord has been wound upon the frame to shorten the cord to the desi red degree. Then the cord is passed through the opening, and the end of the wire a2 is sprung into the socket cr. If now the portions of the cord outside of thefadjuster are pulled, the cord will rest in the short curves a a?, and the deviceI will hang vertically, as shown. Y

If the oord has been shortened too much, the wire a2 is released from its socket anda sufiicient number of coils ofthe cord are unwound through the opening in the frame. The wire a2 is snapped back into its socket, and the device is ready again. f

This device is useful for shortening and lengthening cords of incandescent lights, switchboard-cords, and also cords not used for electrical conductors.

It is obviousthat the form of the frame need not be that of the elongated oval shown inthe figures, but that any continuous wire frame having an opening thereinto whereby the cord maybe passed into it is of my invention. So, too, the device may be used,as shown in Fig. 2, without employing the socket Ct, because if the wire of which the frame is made is stiff enough the pull of the cord will not contract it and the opening into the interior of the loop may be permanent.

XVhat I claim is l. In a cord-adjuster, a continuous frame haviugasinglesideopeningthereinto through which a cord may be passed, and means for closing said opening, substantially as described.

2. In a cord-adjuster, a frame formed of a single piece of suitable material and having the short curved end sections a, a3, the long side portions d', d2, and an opening in one of said side portions through which a cord may be passed and produced by separating the ends of said single piece of material, substantially as described.

3. In a cord-adjuster, a frame formed of a IOO single piece of suitable material, and having the curved end sections a, a3, the side portions ci', CL2, and an opening adjacent to one of the end sections through which a cord may be passed, and means for closing said opening, substantially as described.

+L. In a cord-adjuster, a frame consisting of a single pieceof wire having the end sections a, as, the side Wires a', a2, and a socket a4 on one of said Wires for retaining the end of the other Wire,whereby an opening may be formed for the passage of a cord into the interior of the frame, substantially as described.

5. In a cord-adjuster, aframe consisting of a single piece of Wire of elongated oval forni z5 and having, adjacent to one of the ends of the oval, means for connecting the ends of the wire,whereby When disconnected an opening is formed into the interior of the frame for the passage of a cord thereinto, substanzo tially as described.

DAVID M. CARR.

Vitnesses:

NELSON E. SPENCER, F. BISSELL. 

